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Porgie Tirebiter, Feds charge Ald. Edward Burke, allege wiretap on cellphone captures him in attempted extortion
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-alderman-ed-burke-charges-20190103-story.html

Thanks to you, and the others, for lending into more insight for me gleaned from the posts down from your Burke ..
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=149149883 to the one i'm replying to.

The Tribune article above being just another.

We had a 'looked like it' in Robert Askin - Sydney, 1960s, corruption: The problem lay with everyone

Nick Hordern
May 2, 2017 — 11.00pm

Sir Robert Askin, Liberal premier of NSW from 1965 to 1975, was "notoriously corrupt". Everyone knows it, everyone says it – and yet there's no hard evidence for it. Askin is the most senior Australian politician ever to have been so damned. The question of just how he wound up as a pariah is worth pondering.

Askin was a prominent member of a corrupt society .. http://www.sydneycrimemuseum.com/crime-stories/the-1960s-overview/ : Sydney in the mid-20th century. Prohibitions on prostitution, casinos and off-course betting on horse racing – SP, as it was known – gave police a licence to extract payments from sex workers, casino operators and SP bookies. Restrictions on goods and services as diverse as the supply of alcohol and the availability of telephones were other sources of corruption. SP gambling was ubiquitous, a habit shared by one-third of the adult population. Askin himself operated as an SP bookie in the 1930s and 1940s, and continued to use the services of one in his terms as premier. He was an avid gambler and his whole milieu was corrupt. Like many other politicians of the period, he probably visited casinos, accepted politician donations in cash, and engaged in insider trading.
https://www.afr.com/lifestyle/arts-and-entertainment/sydney-1960s-corruption-the-problem-lay-with-everyone-20170430-gvvk3p